An updated version of the Gentoo-based redWall Firewall has been released: "Good day firewallers and spam fighters, redWall Firewall version 2.2.3 has been released. Release Notes: new features have been added; Vuurmuur has been installed again; the initial setup has been rewritten to be like a step-by-step configuration; a Webmin module for OpenVPN has been added; a comprehensive reverse proxy called VultureNG has been added." Please consult the release announcement and changelog for a more detailed list of changes. Download from here: redwall-2.2.3.iso (529MB, MD5).

A major new version of redWall Firewall has been released. Unlike the 0.x and 1.x series, which were based on Red Hat Linux, the new version is now built from Gentoo. From the release announcement: "redWall Firewall version 2.2.1 has been released and is available for download. Major changes include: kernel 2.6.17.1; udev device management; Unionfs-based configuration and data 'management'; Unionfs-based root file system if enabled using 'union_root' as kernel boot parameter; completely rewritten save-config and restore-config mechanism; configurations sent by email are now 'pre-formated' to be put on a floppy and work right away if booted from that floppy; hard disk install script now supports 'USB Disk installs'; a 'maintenance' menu has been implemented during boot...." Download: redwall-2.2.1.iso (519MB, MD5).

A new test build of the Red Hat-based redWall Firewall, version 1.2.1, has been released. What's new? "Kernel 2.6.15.4; udev device management (replaces the deprecated devfs); Unionfs based config (/etc) and data (/var) 'management'; Unionfs based root filesystem (read and write support) if enabled using 'union_root' as kernel boot parameter; completely rewritten save-config and restore-config mechanism; SSH stored configs (on a remote SSH enabled host); configs sent by email are now 'preformated' to be put on a floppy and work right away if booted from that floppy; the hard disk install script now supports 'USB Disk installs'...." More details in the release announcement. Download: redwall-1.2.1-rc1.iso (255MB, MD5).

A new version of redWall Firewall is available: "Good day firewallers and spam fighters! The redWall Firewall version 0.5.5 has been released. This is a major update. A lot of bugs have been fixed and a lot of new features have been implemented: Openswan and OpenVPN have been upgraded which should fix a lot of VPN-based problems and bugs; the kernel has been upgraded to 2.4.30-ow1; the whole mail server setup and spam filtering has been reviewed and enhanced; altermime has been added in order to add email disclaimers to outgoing emails (see /etc/altermime); 'rules du jour' has been added in order to keep SpamAssassin up-to-date with new rules; tcptrack has been added in order to track what's going on on your firewall...." See the release announcement for more details. Download: redwall-0.5.5.iso.tar.gz (217MB).

This is the fourth release candidate of redWall Firewall 0.5.5. What's new? "A lot of major bug fixes have been applied mainly to the setup of the spam filter and Openswan IPsec. The hard disk install script has been extended and the GRUB MBR installation has been fixed to work on most machines. The web interface is now driven by Mambo. An LDAP (i.e. Active Directory) recipient sync script has been added to Postfix." Find more details in the release announcement and changelog. Download: redwall-0.5.5-rc4.iso.tar.gz (177MB).

The third release candidate of redWall Firewall 0.5.5 has been released. "The redWall Firewall version 0.5.5rc3 has been released tonight. This is a minor update: a few bugs have been fixed; hard disk install has been fixed and extended; a few components have been upgraded to current versions; ulog-php has been added. ATTENTION: the 0.5.4 Release is no longer 'supported' and therefore NOT available for download anymore!" Find more information in the release announcement and changelog. Download: redwall-0.5.5-rc3.iso.tar.gz (171MB).

The first release candidate of redWall Firewall 0.5.5, a Fedora-based firewall distribution, is now available for download and testing. From the changelog: "The restore-config script now returns the last error message which occurred in case of a problem with the configuration stored on a media; implemented a redwall-setup menu (type redwall-setup at the command prompt)... this is going to be extended in future releases; cleaned up various things concerning crontab and reporting in general; moved vrrpd and ucarp to the 'High Availability' category within features.conf; added hard disk installation option; implemented redwall-setup menu instead of initial setup script." Download: redwall-0.5.5-rc1.iso.tar.gz (171MB).

This is a bug fix release of redWall Firewall 0.5.4: "A 'major' bug in MySQL (related to the environment on the CD) has been fixed in this release (again ;-) ... please upgrade any 0.5.4 release prior to 0.5.4c if you need MySQL support! Changelog: downgraded MySQL to Version 4.0.18; modified mkisofs options which should fix reported problems with booting the CD on certain PCs." Read more on the distribution's news page. Download: redwall-0.5.4c.iso.tar.gz (148MB).

The redWall project has released redWall Firewall 0.5.4: "Version 0.5.4 released. New kernel 2.4.26-ow2; small and tiny nms system (midas); a lot of bug fixes; some additions; improved restore-config. You can now use the hard disk to store the bootconfig (and of course the configuration itself if you like) information. Just adapt the save-config.conf file to your needs. Any device in /dev/discs and /dev/floppy/0 is valid (you can use the old device names if you like) During boot the restore-config script searches all detected partitions and the /dev/fd0 for a valid 'bootconfig'." Read the full changelog for further details. Download: redwall-0.5.4.iso.tar.gz (149MB).

3CX Phone System is a specialist, Debian-based Linux distribution designed to run a complete unified communications platform. The 3CX client, included in the distribution, can also be installed separately on most hardware as well as the cloud. It provides a complete open standards-based IP PBX and phone system that works with popular SIP trunks and IP phones. It will automatically configure all supported peripherals and it also comes with clients for Windows, OS X, iOS and Android. The ISO image includes a free license for the 3CX PBX edition. The ISO images contains the standard Debian installer which installs a minimal system with the nginx web server, PostgreSQL database, iptables firewall and Secure Shell. Options not relevant to 3CX have been removed form the distribution. Download the installation ISO image from here: debian-8.6.0-amd64-netinst-3cx.iso (246MB).

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